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Watching the 2014 Super Bowl commercials, one thing is clear: These companies are shooting for virality.

Just being seen by millions of TV viewers isn't enough anymore. For marketers to be happy with their extremely expensive Super Bowl commercials, they have to be shared, liked, clicked, tweeted and favorited across the web.

Coca-Cola took the controversy approach to virality, playing "America the Beautiful" in multiple languages in a move that every Missourian watching the game knew would piss off conservatives who demand immigrants learn and speak English.

Luckily, when Daily RFT checked our Twitter feeds this morning, there were far more tweets poking fun at the xenophobic backlash against Coke than there were tweets angry about the commercial itself. Way to stay positive, STL!

Read Daily RFT's five favorite responses to the backlash over a partly non-English son playing during the Super Bowl.
Here are our five favorite responses to Coke's Super Bowl commercial, from St. Louis tweeters:

1. Can we be serious about the real native language of America?

That Coke ad pissed me off! This is AMERICA! It should've been sung in Sioux! Take your English back to England where it belongs,immigrants

Sorry, Americans descended from European countries. We hate to break it to you, but there was a time when the people living in America didn't speak English. We like this tweet because it reminds enemies of coke's commercial of something they should probably have learned from a history textbook -- or at least the Thanksgiving play in kindergarten.
2. I speak English, too.

Coke should have had a disclaimer to their commercial "all actors shown speak english also... how many languages do you know?"

Half of all Europeans speak multiple languages, and that percentage is rising in the developing world. Americans, on the other hand, barely have a grasp on one language. Less than twenty percent of Americans speak a language other than English.
3. Everyone is freaking out!!

A thousand conservatives just had heart attacks after hearing God Bless America in languages other than English. Well done, Coke.